At the Rockaway Township Council meeting on Tuesday, June 10, the Council adopted nine ordinances. Three of them dealt with reappropriating money that had not been used for its original purpose, to buy a new pump and pump column in well #7A. These ordinances re-appropriated $9,828, $60,213.21 and $546.05, respectively. Another five dealt with purchasing a fire truck suspension and a set of dual wheels. These ordinances reappropriated $15,214.90, $8,458.02, $6,639.81, $162.69 and $29,843.21, respectively.

The ninth ordinance dealt with purchasing a pre-owned fire truck. The township will reappropriate $10,650 for the purchase of this truck.

All of the money being reappropriated in these ordinances is from previous projects for which the township didn't use all of the available funds. The Council adopted these ordinances.

The Council then went on to the consent agenda. This contained resolutions R-14-105-114. R-14-114 was pulled out to be discussed separately. Also, the township appointed two firefighters, Stacey Butler and Robert Klimek. The consent agenda was adopted.

R-14-114 deals with the Trust For Public Land's application to acquire a 4.419-acre area off Mount Hope Road, better known as Tiffany's. This will be for the Beaver Pond II Project. Gregg Soha spoke about plans for the project. The Council voted to approve this resolution.

During the Council reports, Councilman Max Rogers addressed the Planning Board meeting of the previous week. Rogers, Captain Vincent Brennan and Mayor Michael Dachisen were all asked to step down from the board because their other titles made it a conflict of interest. Upon being asked to leave the room, Dachisen and Rodgers stayed in the room and Brennan left. Council President Stephen Antonelli, who was also at the meeting, stayed in the room as well.

Councilman Rogers asked if Pond View were successful, would they be able to keep the councilmen and Captain Brennan out of the meeting as residents?

"I would think not," said Carl Perone, an attorney who was filling in for John Iaciofano.

Mayor Dachisen voiced his feelings on the issue, saying, "This has been the craziest litigation in the last 50 years. Nothing’s the norm, nothing is logical. You have the judge demanding that a municipality pay for a developer to find water. And now the developer is saying that the report that we paid for they're not going to use because it wasn't helpful for them."

Antonelli agreed.

"There is an extended study that can be done and they're refusing to do it," Antonelli said. "And that's the impact that's going to be on these residents that currently receive water from those towers."

The Council then adjourned the meeting. The next Council meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 24, at 7:30 p.m.